I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Eric RothI hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
Carroll O'ConnorI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane AustenClose some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.
Paulo CoelhoStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleThe infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VoltairePride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander PopeWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranShame is pride's cloak.
William BlakeThrough pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still small voice says to us something is out of tune.
Carl JungPride will spit in pride's face.
Thomas FullerDesire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
Sai BabaIs pride the never-failing vice of fools?
Alexander PopeSearch well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
AeschylusVanity is a mark of humility, rather than of pride.
Jonathan SwiftIt is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert ParkerPride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Joseph AddisonA portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose, many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
HoraceGenerosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil GibranFame is the inheritance, not of the dead but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William HazlittThe truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel ButlerIn general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John RuskinIf I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPoor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud, and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan SwiftPride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma GandhiTeachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth, for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.
AristotlePride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo have pride in your own motherland is important.
Sai BabaThe pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William BlakeOne may be humble out of pride.
Michel de MontaigneOur vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich NietzscheGreatness does not consist in receiving honors but in deserving them.
AristotleThe passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate, they are green and vigorous in old age.
George SantayanaThere is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William HazlittI like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham LincolnWhat pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Emile M. CioranA man who is eating or lying with his wife, or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is by Christian standards in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. LewisThe English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques RousseauHow sweet I roamed from field to field and tasted all the summer's pride.
William BlakeBy rendering the labor of one the property of the other they cherish pride, luxury and vanity on one side, on the other vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James MadisonI'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael JacksonSo in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet toast and coffee, and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon, and two bottles of cream soda.
John SteinbeckPeople that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThey did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael JacksonVanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane AustenThere is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama